Dillsboro, IN 47018 Frost Dates
Dillsboro, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Dillsboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Dillsboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dillsboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 168 frost-free days, Dillsboro places 29,735 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IN, it ranks 834 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47018's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dillsboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dillsboro can differ from the 47018 normal.